Author: BooMan

For Republicans, It’s Time to Panic

At this point it is no surprise that David Frum is bad-mouthing Newt Gingrich. Frum has gone over to the professionally disgruntled and alienated. But Michael Gerson is also talking in awfully harsh tones. This is the kind of...

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Ask Bin-Laden

From the president’s press conference this morning: Q Thank you, Mr. President. It’s a very busy time. If I may, I’d like to ask you about two other important issues in the news. Republican candidates have...

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Confused Banksters

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is confused about why people are considering constructing guillotines in Lower Manhattan. “Acting like everyone who’s been successful is bad and that everyone who is rich is bad, I just don’t get...

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Eric Cantor Crushes Insider Trading Bill

I can’t imagine why House Majority Leader Eric Cantor wouldn’t want Congress to pass rules that ban congresspeople from trading on insider information. Remember this? Putting his money where his mouth is? Eric...

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I Just Threw Up a Little

There are some things that are so horrible that I can’t even contemplate them. What do we do with the fragments of our dead soldiers? Who wants to think about such things? Well, what we used to do is burn them up and throw...

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